Moved project description to setup.cfg

setup.cfg

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ author-email = [email protected]
 home-page = http://github.com/Stratoscale/skipper
 summary = Easily dockerize your Git repository
 license = Apache-2
+long_description = file: README.md
+long_description_content_type = text/markdown
 
 requires-dist = setuptools
 

setup.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import io
 import os
 import sys
 from setuptools import setup
@@ -8,17 +7,10 @@
 if os.getuid() == 0 and 'bdist_wheel' in sys.argv:
     raise RuntimeError("This setup.py does not support wheels")
 
-# read the contents the README file
-this_directory = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
-with io.open(os.path.join(this_directory, 'README.md'), 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
-    long_description = f.read()
-
 setup(
     setup_requires=[
         'pbr >= 1.9',
         'setuptools >= 17.1'
     ],
     pbr=True,
-    long_description=long_description,
-    long_description_content_type='text/markdown'
 )